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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>,
	Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink.
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:58:13 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4625DDA5.60503@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704180840100.4684@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>

Julian Phillips wrote:
>> Sure... and from my own perspective as a user, I didn't even realise
>> what float did until now, and was surprised that "bury" would mean that.
>> The metaphor is a stack, not a pool or a sandpit. I don't think those
>> terms really assist in understanding, however cute they are.
>>     
>
> I find that bury is more natural than float (thinking of a stack of 
> documents on a desk ...).  But then I don't use stg ...
>   

You demonstrate my point :) by apparently missing that "bury" and
"float" are supposed to be the *opposite* of each other.

Sam.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-18  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-10 18:27 [PATCH] Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink Yann Dirson
2007-04-17 20:42 ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-18  0:02   ` Catalin Marinas
2007-04-18  0:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-18  2:49       ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-18  7:41         ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-18  8:58           ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2007-04-18 10:33             ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-18 20:19               ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-04-18 20:35                 ` Yann Dirson
2007-04-19  8:59                   ` Karl Hasselström
2007-04-21  9:37                     ` Catalin Marinas
2007-04-21 10:15                       ` Yann Dirson
2007-04-21 11:00                       ` Karl Hasselström

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